Details of the first suggestions for the fate of Arnold Clark’s maintenance site on Nithsdale Drive have appeared.
Arnold Clark are working with Page\Park Architects, and have opened a consultation on their initial proposals. You can see the full details on the Page\Park website.
There is a survey you can complete, and Zoom consultations on 30th March and 27th April.
*** UPDATE – May 2022, see below ***
We previously reported on plans to access council funds for refurbishing back lanes.
The council not only required bids to come from a formally constituted body, i.e. The Society, but also set a very short deadline for the first round of applications, preventing us from conducting a fuller consultation. We therefore set about surveying the lanes and establishing how we could make small but meaningful improvements to the lanes within a budget of £20,000.
For the bulk of the bid we chose to focus on improving access in the back lanes, specifically for active travel, such as those walking and cycling, and sought to identify the areas where this is most difficult. On a wet day it became obvious that where the poor state of the surface combines with a tendency to flooding, lanes can be completely impassable to those on foot. The areas worst affected are the two entrances to the Vennard/Marywood lane from Vennard Gardens, and a short mid-section of the Marywood/Queen Square lane. If our bid is successful we will be looking to find a contractor who can perform patch repairs to these areas to improve access. We will need to seek permission of the owners of the adjacent properties, as the lanes are their property, and we will be approaching them in due course.
While we acknowledge other suggestions were made, we felt it appropriate to concentrate on fixing the worst problems first.
We have also bid for funding for indemnity insurance, previously withdrawn by the council, to cover our Brighter Bungo clean up events, a matter of a few hundreds of pounds.
There will be further rounds of funding, so if we can pull this off, it may allow us to bid for further projects in due course. We will let you know how we get on.
The Society has been awarded £20,000 to be spent by mid October. We need the written permission of the adjacent residents, who own the lanes, and are making good progress making contacts. We will also be seeking contractors who might be interested to discuss what can be achieved. If you think you have the skills to help us email our chair.
There’s an update on Network Rail in the newsletter, out today.
Furthermore Cllr Molyneux has received an acknowledgement of the importance of incorporating provision for active travel in the redesign of the roadbridge. While the structure is the responsibility of Network Rail, what is laid down on top of it is the responsibility of the council.
MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF HEAD OF TRANSPORT STRATEGY, NEIGHBOURHOODS, REGENERATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Dear Cllr Molyneux
Further to your enquiry dated the 1 February 2022 I write to provide you with a final update.
The Nithsdale Road Bridge is a key route identified in the proposed City Network; one of the major interventions set out in the Active Travel Strategy. Due to the railway there are no viable alternative options for a west-east link in this area. The route would act to connect the South City Way with the proposed extension to the South West City Way and has been identified as a likely priority project in the Interim Delivery Plan for the City Network.
The area surrounding Nithsdale Road Bridge is in the second tranche of Liveable Neighbourhoods which has now secured funding. Liveable Neighbourhoods will work with the communities to establish projects in the area based around four key thematics: Local Town Centres, Everyday Journeys, Active Travel, and Streets for People.
The works on and around the Nithsdale Road Bridge provide opportunity to deliver for both the Active Travel Strategy and Liveable Neighbourhoods by providing protected cycle space and making the route across the bridge more attractive and welcoming for pedestrians.
Head of Transport Strategy
Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability
Bungo in the Back Lanes will finally be returning to Strathbungo after a 2 year hiatus, circumstances permitting.
This year it will be Saturday 18th June, 1-5pm. Watch the event pages for more details as they appear, or get in touch if you want to help out, volunteer, or run a stall.
The latest newsletter has arrived. If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can
Thanks to our editor, Sandra Nimako-Boatey. If you want to write something for the newsletter, get in touch.
You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.
The Arnold Clark showroom has been a prominent feature in Strathbungo for a century, sitting on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Nithsdale Drive. It was built as The Queens Garage in the 1920s, and it has operated as a motor showroom ever since. Although the building looks a modern replacement, it is actually the original building with a new fascia.
However the showroom has now closed, and the land earmarked for housing. Today the first proposal for the site has been released by South Side Housing Association and Keppie Design, and they are looking for your comments. Note that while this is just an initial proposal, they hope to lodge their planning application in March or April.
You have a brief opportunity to discuss at this stage. Feel free to discuss on the Keppie Design web site, on here, on social media, or email chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you would rather the Society reflect your views anonymously.
The consultation dates are as follows:
Their sketch above is based off Google Streetview, so here is a more realistic rendition of what is to come, and what it replaces.
Artist’s rendition, superimposed on Google Streetview
The Queens Garage
The Arnold Clark showroom
There’s a proposal gone in for the other part of Arnold Clarks on Nithsdale Drive today, beside the railway line. Not much detail:
Network Rail have provided details of the major bridge works planned for 2022-23 at Nithsdale Road, including demolition of the old Station building, replacement of the bridge, and subsequent replacement of the footbridge.
You are invited to take part with an engagement exercise with Network Rail. This will be online, and you need to book a slot. Exactly what form this will take isn’t clear to us yet.
The Society emailed Network Rail with some of our concerns late last year after the AGM, but have not had a reply. Some of the issues are discussed in a previous blog post.
Access to the consultation is here:
There is a timetable of road closures, etc, and more information in the letters circulated to residents.
Our stretch of Nithsdale Road is a mess.
Come along to a community meeting to discuss options for keeping the street cleaner.
Saturday 22nd January 2022, 11-11.30am, outside on street at the Pollokshaws Road end of Nithsdale Road. If the weather is bad, it’ll be at The Deep End instead.
Note this is a locally organised meeting, and not a Strathbungo Society event, though the Society will continue to help where it can.
The latest newsletter has arrived. If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can
New Bridge, NOT Brighter Bungo, New Bawn, a New Book, News in Brief…
And a very warm welcome to our new editor, Sandra Nimako-Boatey. Thanks also to James Spooner for his stint; he gets a well deserved rest.
You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.
The latest newsletter has arrived. If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can read it now!
The bridge, beer, books, businesses, bike hangars, budding journalists, and to top it all, Bungo NOT in the Back Lanes is back in two weeks!
You can also find it, and old newsletters back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.
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